Using nitrate to quantify quick flow in a karst aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-360

  Mahler, Barbara J ^a   Garner, Bradley D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER WATERS; END-MEMBERS; ENDMEMBER; KARST AQUIFERS; KARST SYSTEMS; MIXING MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCES; SPRING FLOWS; STORM FLOWS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; TIME-SCALE;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; NITRATES; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); WATER QUALITY;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

NITRATE;

AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KARST HYDROLOGY; NITRATE; RECHARGE; SPRING WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

BARTON SPRINGS; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CENTROSTEGIA THURBERI;

EID: 65449125471     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00499.x     Document Type: Article

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